3The Cecil Hotel, Los Angeles
After the body of missing student, Elisa Lam was found in a closed water tank on the Cecil Hotel’s roof, the place became notorious. The mystery in which her death is enshrouded was made infamous when security footage of the co-ed behaving oddly in the hotel elevators went viral. Prior to this though, the Cecil had already garnered a bad reputation. Since its opening in 1942, several violent deaths have occurred there and two serial killers have been documented in the hotel logs. It’s reportedly one of the city’s most haunted hotels.
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